Sun Myung Moon Collection

Rev. Sun Myung Moon (born January 6, 1920) is the Korean founder and leader of the worldwide Unification Church. He is also the founder of many other organizations and projects involved in political, cultural, artistic, mass-media, educational, public service, and other activities. One of the best-known of these is the conservative Washington Times newspaper. Moon has said, and it is believed by many Unification Church members, that he is the Messiah and the Second Coming of Christ and is fulfilling Jesus' unfinished mission. He has been among the most controversial modern religious leaders, both for his religious beliefs and for his social and political activism.

By: Jon Quinn

Religious Literature

Excerpt: ?Heavenly sons and daughters should live more happily than anyone else, and should bear more children than people in the satanic realm. Maybe twelve children will be average for you. Continuously give birth to children. Unification Church members cannot practice birth control. You should bear more than ten children.? ?We have decided we should have at least twelve children. So we are heading for that goal.? ? Sun Myung Moon ?Lo, children are an heritage of the L...

By: Rev. Sun Myung Moon

Excerpt: Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon - a World Traveler for Peace. Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon, the international president of the Women?s Federation for World Peace, has dedicated her life to living for the sake of others. On April 11, 1960, Hak Jan Han married Reverend Sun Myung Moon. They are the proud parents of 13 children. She established the global foundation for WFWP by traveling to 113 cities in 12 countries within an eight-month period on her initial world tour. On that tour s...

By: Rev. Sun Myung Moon

Religious Literature

Excerpt: Respected leaders of the United States. I am grateful that so many of you could gather here today, in spite of your busy public and private schedules. Let me begin my address by reading an excerpt from a prayer that I offered forty-seven years ago. The year was 1958 and I was a 38- year-old single man. This prayer is recorded in the Cheon Seong Gyeong, a collection of passages from sermons I have delivered over the course of my ministry. ?Loving Father, thank yo...

By: Robert Kittel

Religious Literature

Excerpt: The Pure Love Alliance was recently awarded $36,000 by the State of Missouri to conduct abstinence education in St. Louis. Although this is a small sum, it is significant because it is the first Title V Abstinence-only Education Program money the PLA has received so far. It gives hope to the many other chapters waiting for a favorable decision on funding.

By: Dan Fefferman

Religious Literature

Excerpt: New Hope Family Church. ?The Bible records a 4,000-year Providence of Restoration that includes Noah?s family, Abraham?s family, Moses? family and Jesus? family. We see that the mistakes the members of those families committed were not events extending over a decade or several decades. Those who erred did so in a single moment, and the error of that one moment fated them and their descendants to a path of indemnity extending over a thousand years of history, and...

By: Rev. Sun Myung Moon

Religious Literature

Excerpt: It is time to stop just talking about helping the poor and miserable of the Third World, and improving the global transportation system is one of the first things the wealthy countries can do to help. A tunnel is a problem solver, not a problem maker.?

By: Rev. Sun Myung Moon

By: Dan Fefferman

Religious Literature

Excerpt: To discuss the current and future state of religious freedom throughout the world, the International Coalition for Religious Freedom conducted three international conferences on ?Religious Freedom and the New Millennium? in April and May, 1998. The meetings took place in Washington DC, Tokyo and Berlin.

By: Jennifer P. Tanabe

Religious Literature

Excerpt: I decided to write this series of articles while teaching a course on Unification Thought at the Unification Theological Seminary with Dr. David Carlson. As we neared the end of the course, I realized that the ideas which had been discussed during the term should be made available to more than the thirty or so students and two professors participating in the course. I am sure that many have struggled, as I did, through several generations of texts on Unification...

By: Jon Quinn

Religious Literature

Excerpt: Our society is the realm of death. Who then shall conquer the realm of death and bring it to life? The only hope lies with the appearance of a true religion and a leader of that religion. This is the only hope for the transformation of society from the realm of death to the realm of life.?

By: Jon Quinn

Religious Literature

Excerpt: There are a number of reasons why the Unification Movement has not grown in numbers like Father has wanted. There are still only a handful of members in the United States since Father came to live in 1971. For over 30 years he constantly pushed Unificationists to get tens of thousands of core believers but it never happened. In my book 10 Commandments Part II I teach the values that we need to live by to achieve happiness and to achieve a messianic movement that...

By: Mrs. Nora Spurgin

Religious Literature

Excerpt: This is the first in a two-part reprint of an article first published in Blessed Family Volume 4. Long before Father ever taught the Principle to anyone, he searched throughout Korea for the Christian groups which he knew God had been preparing and which had been willing to make the sacrifices necessary to play a role in the restoration process. Many of them had made incredible sacrifices in laying a foundation of faith, but in the end there always remained that...

By: Rev. Sun Myung Moon

Religious Literature

Preface: Humankind has been following a suffering path of spiritual indemnity in order to restore the ideal of peace and realize the original world. The agony of sin and conflict originating from the Fall has expanded throughout history from the individual to the family, nation and world. Humankind has been awaiting a message of hope that will empower us to cast off this inheritance. Reverend Sun Myung Moon is a messenger of Heaven sent with a revelation for all humankin...

Preface: A Life of Teaching by Example Reverend Dr. Sun Myung Moon?s aim in life, as I understand it, is the liberation of God and the salvation of humankind. This is highly evident from the spirit and life emanating from his sermons (350 volumes of Sermons of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon) and prayers (Twelve volumes of Reverend Sun Myung Moon: Prayers ? A Lifetime of Conversation with our Heavenly Father).

Introduction: The text contained within these pages is a gift to you from the Interreligious and International Federation for World Peace and the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification for your prayer and contemplation. It contains a series of reflections from major religious leaders in the spirit world. Though some of the ideas expressed may challenge your conventional understanding, the urgency of these times calls for new and deeper insight into the nature ...

Introduction: If any man would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For who ever would save his life will lose it; and whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel's will save it. (Mark 8:34-35) When Sun Myung Moon came to America in 1972, he came as a prophet of God, called to preach a message of revival in the face of rejection and persecution. His message was controversial, and his intentions have been frequently misunderstood ...